"He died on 4 December 1635, apparently on the return boat. Jean du Plessis d'Ossonville Jean du Plessis, sieur d’Ossonville (died 4 December 1635) was a joint leader of the French expedition that established a colony on the island of Guadeloupe in 1635. He died on the island after less than six months. Jean du Plessis was a gentleman from Picardy. He was the seigneur d’Ossonville, an advocate in Dieppe and a distant relative of Cardinal Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis). The French adventurers Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc and Urbain Du Roissey reached Saint Christopher Island (Saint Kitts) in 1625, and"
"Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu Armand-Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (25 September 176617 May 1822), was a prominent French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration. He was known by the courtesy title of Count of Chinon until 1788, then Duke of Fronsac until 1791, when he succeeded his father as Duke of Richelieu. As a royalist, during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he served as a ranking officer in the Russian Imperial Army, achieving the grade of major general. Following the Bourbon Restoration, he returned to his homeland"
"He died, of a stroke, on 17 May 1822. Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu Armand-Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (25 September 176617 May 1822), was a prominent French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration. He was known by the courtesy title of Count of Chinon until 1788, then Duke of Fronsac until 1791, when he succeeded his father as Duke of Richelieu. As a royalist, during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he served as a ranking officer in the Russian Imperial Army, achieving the grade of major general."
"and of the retention of New France, he founded the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and saw the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye return Quebec City to French rule under Champlain, after the settlement had been taken by the Kirkes in 1629. This in part allowed the colony to eventually develop into the heartland of Francophone culture in North America. Richelieu has been depicted in popular fiction frequently, most notably as a leading character in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""The Three Musketeers"" and its numerous film adaptations. Born in Paris, Armand du Plessis was the fourth of five children and the last of three sons:"
"and was twice Prime Minister of France. He was born in Paris, the son of Antoine de Vignerot du Plessis, 4th Duke of Richelieu, and of his wife, Adélaïde de Hautefort. His father was the son and heir of King Louis XV of France's favourite, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu (1696–1788). Known by the courtesy title of ""comte de Chinon"" during the lifetime of his distinguished grandfather, he was married on 4 May 1782 at the age of fifteen to Alexandrine Rosalie Sabine de Rochechouart-Faudoas (17689 December 1830), a hunchbacked child of fourteen. Immediately after the"
"commuted the sentences of many prisoners sentenced to death. Armand Fallières Clément Armand Fallières (; 6 November 1841 – 22 June 1931) was a French statesman, President of France from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the ""département"" of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace. He studied law and became an advocate at Nérac, beginning his public career there as municipal councillor (1868), afterwards mayor (1871), and as councillor-general of the ""département"" of Lot-et-Garonne (1871). Being an ardent Republican, he lost this position in May 1873 upon the fall of Thiers, but in"
"Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis-Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon (31 July 17201 September 1788), was a French soldier and statesman, and a nephew of Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu. He served as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under King Louis XV. He was the son of Armand-Louis de Vignerot du Plessis, duc d'Aiguillon (1683–1750), and until the death of his father, he was known at court as the duc d'Agénois. He entered the army at the age of seventeen, and at the age of nineteen was made colonel of the regiment"
"Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (; 9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu ( ), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered. Cardinal de Richelieu was often known"
"Armand Fallières Clément Armand Fallières (; 6 November 1841 – 22 June 1931) was a French statesman, President of France from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the ""département"" of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace. He studied law and became an advocate at Nérac, beginning his public career there as municipal councillor (1868), afterwards mayor (1871), and as councillor-general of the ""département"" of Lot-et-Garonne (1871). Being an ardent Republican, he lost this position in May 1873 upon the fall of Thiers, but in February 1876 was elected deputy for Nérac. In the"
"1730. <BR> <br> Nicolas Chalon du Blé Nicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles and Cormatin (24 January 1652 – 10 April 1730) was a French general and Foreign Minister. He was also created a knight and Marshal of France by Louis XIV, and was a diplomat for Louis XIV and Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. du Blé was born at Chalon-sur-Saône. His appearance was described as tall and ruddy, with a huge wig and a hat pulled down over his eyes. He tended to hide his military orders and decorations under a plain, tightly-buttoned coat. Second heir of Louis Chalon"
"French government. He served as Inspector General of Commerce under Louis XVI. He helped negotiate the treaty of 1783, by which Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States, and arranged the terms of a commercial treaty signed by France and England in 1786. In 1784, he was ennobled by ""lettres patentes"" (letters patent) from the king Louis XVI (a process known as ""noblesse de lettres""), which added the ""de Nemours"" (""of Nemours"") suffix to his name to reflect his residence. Du Pont initially supported the French Revolution and served as president of the National Constituent Assembly. He"
"George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her ""nom de plume"" George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist, and socialist. Sand wrote: ""My name is not Marie-Aurore de Saxe, Marquise of Dudevant, as several of my biographers have asserted, but Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, and my husband, M. François Dudevant, claims no title: the highest rank he ever reached was that of infantry second lieutenant."" Always known simply as ""Aurore"", she was born in Paris, but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie-Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de"
"Jules Armand Dufaure Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman. Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts. He abandoned law for politics and, in 1834, was elected deputy. In 1839, he became minister of public works in the ministry of Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and succeeded in freeing railway construction in France from the obstacles which until then had hampered it. Losing office in 1840, Dufaure became one of the leaders of the Opposition, and"
"on June 25, 1715 in Bourbon-l'Archambault, Auvergne. As fixed spellings of surnames was not yet common practice in his time, du Casse's surname has a variety of different spellings. The spelling of ""du Casse"" is from his birth record, but other records show ""Ducasse"", ""Ducas"", and ""Du Casse"". His grand-nephew, Robert, who wrote a biography of Jean-Baptiste in 1876, spells both his great-uncle's and his own as ""du Casse"". Uncertainty exists around the birth of du Casse. Though he is usually said to have been born on August 2, 1646 in Saubusse, near Dax (Landes), the son of Bertrand Ducasse,"
"the revolutionary faction. Stirred up, du Plessis' own regiment rioted and his men murdered him. Du Plessis was born in Hennebont in Brittany on 12 September 1753. Sent to the famous artillery school in Grenoble at a very young age, he ran away to Marseilles when he was 12 years old. Joining a ship's crew as a seaman, he satisfied his thirst for travel by sailing to the Levant, Alexandria, and Constantinople. Eventually he returned to France and his military studies. In December 1776, Philippe Charles Tronson de Coudray and a group of French officers left for America on the"
"in 1788. The announcement of his death was worded as follows in ""Annonces Affiches Avis Bibliothèque nationale Arsenal 8 H 26195 n° 64 septembre-décembre 1788"": 4 septembre 1788 (probably date of the burial, other sources mention a date of death of 1 September) Emmanuel-Armand Duplessis-Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, pair de France, noble génois, chevalier des ordres du roi, lieutenant général de ses armées, ancien lieutenant de la compagnie des chevau-légers de la garde ordinaire de Sa Majesté, gouverneur général de la haute et basse Alsace, gouverneur particulier des ville, citadelle, parc et château de La Fère, ancien lieutenant général de la"
"the sentence ""Cities should be built in the country, the air is healthier"""", generally attributed to Alphonse Allais, is to be found in the ""Pensées d'un emballeur"" by Commerson. In fact, it seems that this joke already was in ""Le Pamphlet provisoire illustré"" (1848). Jean-Louis-Auguste Commerson Jean-Louis-Auguste Commerson (2 germinal an XI, 23 March 1803 – 24 July 1879) was a 19th-century French writer, journalist and playwright. A specialist of puns and journalistic ""canards"" (false report launched in the media in order to mislead the public), Commerson wrote many humorous books, including ""Pensées d'un emballeur pour faire suite aux «"
"Jean Armand Charlemagne Jean Armand Charlemagne (born Bourget (Seine) 30 November 1753 – died Paris 6 March 1838) was a French dramatic author. Originally intended for the church, he turned first to being a lawyers clerk and then a soldier. He served in the American War of Independence, and on returning to France (1783) began to employ his pen on economic subjects, and later in writing for the stage. He became the author of a large number of plays, poems and romances, among which may be mentioned the comedies ""M. de Crac à Paris"" (1793), ""Le Souper des Jacobins"" (1795)and"
"Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress then less than half his age and at the height of her career. The English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as ""the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth. His tongue was like a windmill – once set in motion, you never knew when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself."" Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the"
"Stanislas de Boufflers Stanislas Jean, chevalier de Boufflers (May 31, 1738, Nancy – January 18, 1815) was a French statesman and writer. He was born near Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, the son of Louis François, marquis de Boufflers. His mother, Marie Catherine de Beauveau Craon, was the mistress of Stanislas Leszczynski, and the boy was brought up at the court of Lunéville. He spent six months in study for the priesthood at Saint Sulpice, Paris, and during his residence there he circulated a story which became extremely popular, ""Aline, reine de Golconde"". Boufflers did not take priestly vows, as his ambitions were"
"of his paintings, ""The Signing of the Declaration of Independence"" is in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq (born in Paris in 1826, died in Paris in 1895) was a French painter, primarily of religious and military subjects. In 1870, he came to the United States, sent by the French government for a study mission about ""the different learning methodologies of design and how they are applied in arts and industry"". He met the artists of the East coast and also the military academies of West Point and Annapolis. He did not paint"
"Encyclopedia, ALFA and the World Press Encyclopedia"". Du Plessis was born to Jean-Pierre, a World War II veteran with the British SAS and architect, and Simone Jeanne, a therapist for dyslexic children. He moved to Richmond, Virginia and attended Virginia Commonwealth University, supporting himself by cleaning floors at Johnston-Willis Hospital, working as a waiter, a substitute teacher at an all-black school, and as a campus police officer for one summer. After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and went on to the University of Virginia"
"Eustache Deschamps Eustache Deschamps (1346 — 1406 or 1407 ), was a French poet, byname Morel, in French ""Nightshade"" . Deschamps was born in Vertus. He received lessons in versification from Guillaume de Machaut and later studied law at Orleans University. He then traveled through Europe as a diplomatic messenger for Charles V, being sent on missions to Bohemia, Hungary and Moravia. In 1372 he was made ""huissier d’armes"" to Charles. He received many other important offices, was ""bailli"" of Valois, and afterwards of Senlis, squire to the Dauphin, and governor of Fismes . In 1380, Charles died, and Deschamps's"
"men responsible for the Network called “Mithridate” from 1942 to the end of hostilities. Despite controversies with local resistants about his vote in favour of Pétain, he regained the town hall of Villefranche sur Saône in 1947, and in 1956 he was reintegrated into the Socialist party. His funeral in 1958 was a large public gathering. Today his chest takes centre stage in the town hall, and a huge sports complex bears his name. Armand Chouffet Armand Chouffet was a French politician born on March 4, 1895 in Hérimoncourt, a small town situated in the eastern part of France. He"
"André Duchesne André Duchesne (; sometimes spelled ""Du Chesne"", Latinized ""Andreas Chesneus"", ""Andreas Quercetanus"", or ""Andreas Querneus""; May 1584May 30, 1640) was a French geographer and historian, generally styled the father of French history. Duchesne was born in L'Île-Bouchard. He was educated at Loudun and afterwards at Paris. From his earliest years he devoted himself to historical and geographical research, and his first work, ""Egregiarum seu selectarum lectionum et antiquitatum liber"", published in his eighteenth year, displayed great erudition. He enjoyed the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, a native of the same district with himself, through whose influence he was appointed"
"a stillborn two-headed child, a cousin, in the garden of his family home at Pithiviers in north-central France. James Paris du Plessis James Paris du Plessis (born ""c."" 1666 Pithiviers, France; died ""c."" 1735 London) was a servant of the famous 17th-century English diarist Samuel Pepys and the author of “A Short History of Human Prodigies, and Monstrous Births: of Dwarfs, Sleepers, Giants, Strong Men, Hermaphrodites, Numerous Births, and Extreme Old Age, &c.”, an unpublished manuscript he produced between 1730 and 1733 that is preserved in the British Library in London. Du Plessis' bizarre 320-page manuscript is illustrated with hand-coloured"
"Armand d'Artois Armand d'Artois (3 Octobre 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist, and also Achille d'Artois's brother. Aimed at the bar, he first worked by an attorney but the success of his play ""Les Finacés"" in 1808, decided him to devote entirely to literature. In 1814, he joined the guards of the king of Belgium and left the military service after receiving the Legion of Honour in 1818. A very prolific author, he wrote under various collective pseudonyms such as Emmanuel, with Emmanuel Arago, M. Sapajou, with Francis baron d'Allarde and Gabriel de Lurieu."
"Armand Chouffet Armand Chouffet was a French politician born on March 4, 1895 in Hérimoncourt, a small town situated in the eastern part of France. He died on October, 28th 1958 in Villefranche-sur-Saône. Choufett, the son of a butcher, served in the French army. And in 1917, after World War I, he escaped from a German prison where he had been held since June 1916.< go die in a hole ref>Jean Jolly (dir.), ""Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, notices biographiques sur les ministres, sénateurs et députés français de 1889 à 1940"", Paris, PUF, 1960, p. 1051. (French)</ref> Choufett became a lawyer"
"Alphonse de Lamartine Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, Knight of Pratz (; 21 October 179028 February 1869), was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricouleur as the flag of France. Lamartine was born in Mâcon, Burgundy, on 21 October 1790. His family were members of the French provincial nobility, and he spent his youth at the family estate. Lamartine is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, ""Le lac"" (""The Lake""), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the"
"on Napoleon I and his entourage. His ""Souvenirs d'un officier du le Zouaves"", and ""Les Dessous du coup d'état"" (1891), contain many piquant anecdotes, but at times degenerate into mere tittle-tattle. Ducasse was the author of some slight novels, and from the practice of this form of literature he acquired that levity which appears even in his most serious historical publications. Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse Pierre-Emmanuel-Albert, Baron du Casse (also Ducasse, 16 November 1813 – 14 March 1893) was a French soldier and military historian born at Bourges on 16 November 1813. He is best known for being the"
"Antoine Duprat Antoine Duprat (17 January 1463 – 1535) was a French Cardinal and politician, who was chancellor of France. Duprat was born in Issoire in Auvergne. Educated for the law, he won a high position in his profession and in 1507 became first president of the Parlement of Paris (the highest court of France). In 1515 Francis I of France made him chancellor of France and prime minister. In 1517, after his wife's death, he took holy orders and gradually rose in the Catholic Church hierarchy: first as bishop of several dioceses held by him in plurality; then as"
"Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé (14 October 1747 – 28 June 1814) was a French soldier and politician. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he was at first a musketeer, then a lieutenant of the ""Marchaux"" (guardsmen of the ""Ancien Régime""), and embraced Liberalism. At the start of the French Revolution in 1789, he was elected deputy to the States-General by the Third Estate of Vitry-le-François, and joined the National Assembly (his portrait stands in the foreground in Jacques-Louis David's celebrated sketch of the ""Oath of the Tennis Court""). In the Constituent Assembly, of which he was named secretary"
"in the senate. After the conservatives' defeat on 16 May, he returned to power on 24 December 1877. Early in 1879, Dufaure took part in compelling the resignation of Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, but immediately afterwards (1 February), worn out by opposition, he retired. As Prime Minister, he served as the Acting President of the Republic on 30 January 1879. See G Picot, ""M. Dufaure, sa vie et ses discours"" (Paris, 1883). Changes Changes Changes Jules Armand Dufaure Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman. Dufaure was born at Saujon,"